Habit: the shackles of the free

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Personal appearance is looking the best you can for the money.

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

The directuse of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employedonly by small children and large nations.

The basic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.